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Thousands of Syrians trapped in the city of Homs for 500 days without power or
food supplies are being starved out by the Assad regime, a trapped doctor
said yesterday.

“Doctor M” told The Times that being gassed to death would
be a more preferable end than the slow misery being inflicted on the city in
what has been compared to the siege of Stalingrad.

“Sick people here do not die due to [lack of] medical treatment but because of
hunger and severe malnutrition, unhealed wounds, severe lack of food and
absence of basic human necessities,” he said via a